teachrdan

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by teachrdan 7mo ago
Or Montpelier, VT!
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
There's also the British penchant for deliberately mispronouncing French words. I have heard "renaissance" pronounced "reh-NAY-sance", "fillet" pronounced "fill-it", "valet" as "va
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
I wonder if there's a startup out there selling AI-generated comments for astroturfing HN, Reddit, et al. And then I wonder if that startup is a YCombinator company...
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
I think the implication is that democratic presidents are less likely to do dumb shit like this, which harms the economy.
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
One fan theory is that Gene Hackman plays the same character, decades later, in Enemy of the State (1998).
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
> The lengths that stooges will go to protect copyright monopolies and eradicate fair use is also extreme and should be embarrassing. Microsoft has a market cap of almost $3 trillion. I think they can afford to pay for the texts they us
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
> An administrative subpoena implies that there has been a legal procedure and the administrative agencies are not exactly run like the wild west Hard disagree. The fact that a government agency "reviewed" its own subpoena befo
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
I stand corrected. Looks like "194 unions (56.2%) hitting the 51% threshold in 2021" after cursory searching. Having said that, it still belies the notion that teacher's unions are single handedly responsible for poor student
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by teachrdan 8mo ago
News flash: Massachusetts and Wisconsin came in tied at #1 for student performance, and teacher union density is about 100% for both states.
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by teachrdan 9mo ago
This is an ignorant take. The New York Times made a profit last year of $550 million. Clearly the problem isn't the internet -- nor should it be for a paper bought by JEFF BEZOS, the man arguably who did more to revolutionize selling s
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by teachrdan 9mo ago
For those like me who didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
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by teachrdan 9mo ago
In the US at least, the limit applies to containers that hold more than 3oz. So I'm prohibited from bringing an 8oz toothpaste tube with an ounce or less left in it. This is an inconvenience if I want to fly for a multi-day trip with
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by teachrdan 9mo ago
Fun fact: While the US spent more than 3 cents for every penny minted and distributed, it spends about 14 cents for every nickel minted and distributed!
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by teachrdan 10mo ago
Worth noting that Arkansas consistently ranks in the bottom 10 states for public education https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/01/08/arkansas-named... : "In education, despite what the pro-LEARN
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by teachrdan 10mo ago
It makes sense to me. Donors are hard to come by -- you need someone healthy right up to the point that they died. People who die of rabies can apparently appear to have suffered a heart attack, which would make them prime candidates for or
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
This may be small potatoes, but I've heard it said that people like you benefit "by not living in a state full of dumbasses." There's definitely an indirect benefit from these payments.
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
Assume a silent drone that never cuts internet cable.
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
Does Mikey aspire to have millions of RC cars driving 24 hours a day all over the country?
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
My dream is that an increase in drones would lead to a decrease in vehicular deliveries, to the point that there would be a net decrease in noise. But in my heart of hearts I am certain the convenience of drone delivery -- and an absence
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
Could you explain how this would help? I'm struggling to understand where you're coming from here, besides perhaps a reflexive libertarian reaction to government.
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
Link for the lazy: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/general Find "Smart Features", uncheck, and press save, which will reload Gmail. Then find "Google Workspace smart features&qu
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
In addition to being a short classic, I think teens could identify with Gatsby being obsessed with getting the approval of people who have nothing but contempt for him. There's a devastating scene at the end where the narrator, Nick Ca
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
> compared to what some of your 'competitors' may do. Or your boss. Once you're working for a drug cartel, I don't think you have a whole lot of autonomy when it comes to determining your specific role. If your boss t
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by teachrdan 11mo ago
Heh, I thought you were going to link to this: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/6/us-navy-seals-killed...
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by teachrdan 1y ago
There's also one guy in the sub whose job it is to shoot anyone who tries to turn back or otherwise interfere with the mission.
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New court docs put Sam Altman's honesty in spotlight again(fastcompany.com)
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by teachrdan 1y ago
This may be unintentional, but the hero shot at the top of the article is President Trump standing alongside the president of FIFA. Both with big smiles. I'd bet that FIFA will give this award -- at the World Cup match taking place in
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by teachrdan 1y ago
You're right. I apologize for using a link that did not support my argument. The Wikipedia page on the debate about the bombings is very informative. I've seen what I consider to be strong arguments that the Soviet invasion of the
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by teachrdan 1y ago
There is ample data that says Japan was on the verge of surrendering before the US dropped atom bombs on them. If you doubt it, ask yourself why the US rushed to drop a second bomb only three days after the first. It was in our interest to
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by teachrdan 1y ago
I think your point is missing the big picture. The US starting testing again -- even underground -- would likely start other countries testing again, at least some of which would happen aboveground.

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